Anthony Francis Lucas

Anthony Francis Lucas (September 9, 1855–September 2 1921) was responsible for the first successful oil well at the Spindletop oil field in Southeast Texas, which made Beaumont, Texas one of the first oil boomtowns.

Visit to U.S.

In 1879, Lučić visited his uncle in the United States, (Saginaw, Michigan). He settled here and changed the name to Anthony Francis Lucas receiving his naturalization papers on May 9, 1885 at Norfolk, Virginia. He married Caroline Weed Fitzgerald and soon with the son Anthony Fitzgerald Lucas moved to Washington, D.C. in 1887. First, he found employment in lumber industry. Later, interested in mining he ranged from Colorado peaks to the plains of Louisiana prospecting for gold and rock salt.

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1879 - United States - Saginaw - Michigan - Naturalization - May 9 - 1885 - Norfolk, Virginia - Caroline Weed Fitzgerald - 1887 - Industry - Colorado - Prospecting - Gold

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In 1893, Lucas started to work in the salt exploration in Louisiana for the New Orleans company at Petite Anse Avery Island). Working at more different locations, (Grand Cote,Anse la Butte and Belle Isle), until 1896 he gained experience of which the most promising was that one of the possible relationship between the salt deposits and the sulfur, (most probably even crude oil), in the tertiary sediments of the Gulf Coast region. Most mainstream geologists disagreed with Lucas's theory. However, as a result of explorations undertaken so far and the experiences gained, he was foremost expert on these formations in the United States.

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1893 - Salt - Louisiana - New Orleans - Avery Island - 1896 - Sulfur - Tertiary - Gulf Coast

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